Appettte satient composition



No Drawing. Application August 15, 1952, Serial No. 304.635

5 Claims. (Cl. 131-17) The present invention relates to a new and improved United 5...--53Q2Qe g7 x6 therapeutic appetite satient composition designed to curb the appetite without supplying calories to the body and more particularly to a therapeutic appetite satient composition in combustible form which can be smoked and upon smoking causes loss of appetite.

The use of appetite satients has increased greatly in recent years because of the necessity for aiding people in reducing their appetite and thereby reducing their weight. In our present civilization with its great amount of food true hunger rarely occurs and there is much greater danger of a person overeating than there is of a person being hungry.

To a great extent hunger in our present civilization is a psychological phenomenon. There is of course a physiological hunger but it has been found that if the psychological desire for food can be overcome satiation of the appetite will occur with consequent loss of weight. One of the most desirable methods of inducing loss of appetite in a person without supplying calories is by causing a drying of the tongue and the area surrounding the tongue so that there is a lack of appetite. Many methods have been tried to the present time to accomplish this result, some of which have been successful in part.

The present invention has as an object thereof, an improvement in the methods of causing a drying and tissue shrinking sensation in the mouth which method, by causing the drying sensation, has greatly improved properties of reducing appetite.

It is a further object of the present invention to provide a composition which can be used in a common form, such as a cigarette, to be smoked by a person and upon smoking to cause a drying of the secretions in the mouth thereby giving a feeling of dryness in the mouth and a consequent loss of appetite.

It is still a further object of the present invention to provide a composition which reduces the psychological desire for food and also reduces the physiological de-.

sire for food, the combination of reduction of psychological and physiological desire for food operating simultaneously to provide very great loss of appetite and consequent great weight reduction.

With the above objects in view the present invention mainly comprises as a new article of manufacture a combustible substance adapted for use in smoking having intimately admixed therewith and distributed therethru tartaric acid which, upon combustion of said combustible substance, volatilizes to act in the mouth of the person smoking to reduce the person's appetite. The person's appetite is reduced by causing, in the mouth, a drying and puckering sensation similar to what would be belt by taking alum in the mouth.

Many substances have been tried in order to be used in a form such as a cigarette to reduce a person's appetite but no substance has worked successfully until the present invention. I have found that of all known sub stances only tartaric acid acts properly in the composition of the present invention. Only tartaric acid volatilizes properly and is reformed in the mouth. This acts on the membranes in the mouth and produces the desired dryness which has the effect of reducing the person's appetite.

M 2,773,785 o'f ,ented nee. 11, 1956 The tartaricAcid is preferably combined in the smokable substance, such as a cigarette, with a flavor or mixture of flavors which have the ability of overcoming the strong acid taste of the tartaric acid without preventing the tartaric acid from acting as desired. The tartaric acid according to the present invention is combined with either cigarette paper, tobacco such as cigarette tobacco, pipe tobacco, and cigar tobacco and may also be combined with cigar wrapper leaves. In any of these forms the combination of the combustible substance with the tartaric acid has a great elfect in reducing a person's appetite.

While the present invention is not meant to be limited to any theory as to how the composition thereof operates, the following theoretical discussion is given in order to help understand how the composition of the present in vention is believed to operate.

It has been known for many years that people who smoke to a great extent eat less and are leaner. This is of course a general rule and not absolutely infallible. The reason is mainly apparently psychological. The sucking reflex by which an infant satisfies hunger is to some extent satisfied by smoking which requires sucking of thesmoke and this sucking reflex apparently in many people satisfies the psychological desire for food. However this is generally not enough to cause satiation of appetite in most people. It has been found however by the present invention that if the psychological effect of sucking due to smoking is combined with a physiological effect which causes a loss of appetite, the resulting appetite satiation is greatly improved and will in fact work on practically anyone causing a distinct loss of appetite and consequent loss of weight.

Many such agents were sought unsuccessfully until the present invention. I have discovered that the only proper agent which will co-act properly with the smoking effect to cause increased loss of appetite is an agent which in itself increases the sucking reflex. This type of agent is generally of the alum-type which causes a puckering and dryness in the mouth, the same type of effect which in some degree is found in smoking; the combination of the agent with the smoking itself giving greatly enhanced results. I have found that of all such agents only tartaric acid will properly co-a'ct with tobacco smoke in smoking;

for example with the cigarette tobacco, to properly achieve the desired effect.

Apparently this effect is achieved because the tartaric acid volatilizes properly in the cigarette and is reformed either as tartaric acid or as a similar substance in the mouth of the smoker to cause a drying of the secretions and a puckering of the mouth which combines with the sucking efiect and achieves the desired combination of psychological and physiological reduction of appetite.

Although the present invention is not meant to be limited I shall further explain my theory as to how the tartaric acid works in the present combination.

Imagining a cigarette as a boiler containing chemicals and assuming the burning end of the cigarette to be the bottom of the boiler, the fire at the burning end of the cigarette heats the cigarette to different degrees along the length thereof. The fire is hottest at the burning point, the heat is at a medium temperature at the center and is at the coldest at the top of the boiler or about the smoker's lips. The smoke which the person draws in by smoking the cigarette comes from all three places along the length of the cigarette. The chemicals in the cigarette are heated at difierent places along the length. Volatile substances are volatilized at difierent places depending on the temperature thereat and non-volatile substances remain and burn. The tartaric acid apparently volatilizes at ditferent places along the cigarette depending upon how far the fire has progressed and seems to be reformed in the mouth either as tartaric acid itself or as a similar derivative-thereof which causes a drying sensation in the mouth. This drying sensation stops the flow of secretions in the mouth and along with the sucking of the cigarette combines both psycho logically and physiologically to impair the appetite.

It has been found by the present invention that when tartaric acid is combined with tobacco for example in a cigarette, the drying efiect caused by smoking and the consequent loss of appetite caused by the drying effect is enhanced at least four times by the tartaric acid volatilization and reforming in the mouth.

The loss of appetite seems to proceeds as follows: The tartaric acid causes drying which in turn causes puckering (this characteristic being distinctive for tartaric acid as opposed to all other acids although other acids have the same characteristic to a slight degree), which puckering co-acts synergistically with the puckering caused by smoking and the sucking reflex is enhanced which yields a psychological satiation of the appetite. This psychological satiation plus the physiological satiation due to the drying effect, mainly the drying of the secretions, causes a greatly improved loss of appetite.

Other agents may be combined with the cigarette and the tartaric acid to cover the unpleasant taste of the tartaric acid. These agents are flavoring substances which are preferably chosen to be such agents which in and of themselves induce some flavor sensation which causes a loss of appetite. Such agents are chosen as artificial vanilla, cherry flavor, honey, peppermint, and sandalwood oil. Sandalwood oil has been found particularly etfective in covering the taste of the tartaric acid and may even be considered to some extent to combine with the tartaric acid in inducing further loss of appetite.

The amount of tartaric acid utilized per each gram of combustible substance such as tobacco has been found to vary between 0.01 to 0.04 gram tartaric acid per gram tobacco. It has been found practically impossible to cover the taste of greater amounts of tartaric acid so that the cigarette can be smoked pleasantly and lesser amounts of tartaric acid have been found not to give the desired results. The best results have been obtained by using 0.02 gram tartaric acid per gram of combustible substance such as tobacco.

The tartaric acid is combined with the tobacco by intimately admixing the same so that the tartaric acid is homogeneously dispersed throughout the tobacco. It is also possible to impregnate substances like cigarette paper and cigar wrapper leaves with the tartaric acid so that the same is dispersed in the cigarette paper or tobacco leaves and substantially the same results are achieved thereby.

The following examples of preferred compositions according to the present invention are given as explanatory only and are in no way meant to limit the scope of the invention.

Example I A cigarette containing about 1 gram of tobacco and having intimately admixed therewith about 0.01 gram of tartaric acid and about 0.05 gram artificial vanilla. This cigarette when smoked produces a loss of appetite and if smoked regularly just before meals causes a loss of weight.

Example 2 4 Example 3 A cigarete weighing about 1 gram and containing about 0.02 gram tartaric acid per cigarette and about 0.12 cc. sandalwood oil per cigarette. The sandalwood oil very effectively covers the undesirable taste of the tartaric acid and this cigarette when smoked will cause a great deal of drying in the mouth and a loss of appetite. When smoked regularly before meals this cigarette will cause loss of appetite and consequent loss of weight.

Example 4 The following composition may be utilized in the makmg of appetite satient cigarettes according to the present invention:

Tobacco, grams Tartaric acid, 2.5 grams Vanillin Coumarin base (artificial vanilla), 25 grams Peppermint (triple distilled), 5 cc.

Amaranth perfume base (cherry flavor), 30 cc. Sandalwood oil, 10 cc.

Honey, 4 cc.

I claim:

1. As a new article of manufacture a combustible substance adapted to be used in smoking having intimately admixed therewith and distributed therethrough tartaric acid in an amount of between 0.01-0.04 gram tartaric acid per each gram of said combustible substance which upon combustion of said combustible substance volatilizes to act in the mouth of the person smoking to reduce the appetite.

2. As a new article of manufacture a combustible substance adapted to be used in smoking having intimately admixed therewith and distributed therethrough tartaric acid in an amount of 0.02 gram tartaric acid per each gram of said combustible substance which upon combustion of said combustible substance volatilizes to act in the mouth of the person smoking to reduce the appetite.

3. As a new article of manufacture tobacco adapted to be used in smoking having intimately admixed therewith and distributed therethrough tartaric acid in an amount of between 0.01-0.04 gram tartaric acid per each gram tobacco which upon combustion of said tobacco volatilizes to act in the mouth of the person smoking to reduce the appetite.

4. A cigarette adapted upon smoking to cause reduction of appetite having intimately admixed with the tobacco thereof and distributed therethrough tartaric acid in an amount of between 0.01-0.04 gram tartaric acid per cigarette.

5. A cigarette adapted upon smoking to cause reduction of appetite having intimately admixed with the tobacco thereof and distributed therethrough tartaric acid in an amount of 0.02 gram tartaric acid per cigarette.

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Ser. No. 261,049, Lande (A. P. 0.), published May 11, 1943. 

1. AS A NEW ARTICLE OF MANUFACTURE A COMBUSTIBLE SUBSTANCE ADAPTED TO BE USED IN SMOKING HAVING INTIMATELY ADMIXED THEREWITH AND DISTRIBUTED THERETHROUGH TARTARIC ACID IN AN AMOUNT OF BETWEEN 0.01-0.04 GRAM TARTIC ACID PER EACH GRAM OF SAID COMBUSTIBLE SUBSTANCE WHICH UPON COMBUSION OF SAID COMBUSTIBLE SUBSTANCE VOLATILIZES TO ACT IN THE MOUTH OF THE PERSON SMOKING TO REDUCE THE APPETITE. 